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Brett Kavanaugh is no Clarence Thomas. Kavanaugh denied allegations of sexual misconduct in forceful terms during an interview on Fox News on Monday night. But while Thomas in 1991 memorably denounced the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee and its staff for digging up "sleaze" and "dirt"
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For weeks, Jay Gonzalez has been trying to hang Donald Trump around the governor's neck like a weighted tie, four inches too long. This week it was Baker's turn to repay the favor. Gonzalez and his running mate Quentin Palfrey stepped off the Red Line and
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An innovative financial aid program at Purdue University has been awarded a $10,000 prize in the 27th annual Better Government Competition held by the Pioneer Institute, a public research organization located in Boston. Purdue's Back A Boiler program, chosen out of more than 80 contest submissions from
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A provocative new ad from opponents of the so-called Bathroom Bill shows a teen-age girl entering a women's locker room just after a shady-looking man in a hooded sweatshirt goes in and hides in a bathroom stall. The girl goes to a locker and starts to unbutton her
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By Matt Murphy STATE HOUSE NEWS SERVICE A day after New Hampshire's attorney general charged a couple with voting in two states during the 2016 presidential election, Republican Anthony Amore knocked Secretary of State William Galvin for withdrawing Massachusetts from the interstate data sharing program used to uncover
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Rick Green, the Republican candidate for the Massachusetts 3rd Congressional district, which Niki Tsongas is vacating, is in some sense a modern version of the Horatio Alger story. He has the Midas touch. Whatever he has tried has turned to gold. An Air Force brat whose father was a pilot,
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When one of President Donald Trump's top economic advisers, Lawrence Kudlow, said in June that the federal budget deficit "is coming down," the Democrats and the press — apologies for the redundancy — accused him of lying. The Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi, issued
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Jay Gonzalez has done two smart things this past week. The Democratic nominee for governor may be far behind Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker in the polls, but for a few days, at least, he has had him on the defensive.
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